Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kerr spent, in fact, 13 years on the faculties of various West Coast universities before his appointment as Chancellor. In his years at Berkeley, he combined arbitration with teaching and research at the well-known Institute of Industrial Relations...
...Kerr's experience in labor arbitration has left him convinced that a "blueprint" of educational policy is not the proper approach to directing a university. Instead, Kerr feels, the administrator must follow "a compromise of ideas...
California's Master Plan for State Education, which was approved by the Legislature in 1960, bears the stamp of Kerr's knack for mediation. Faced with the task of uniting California's vast network of universities, state and junior colleges, Kerr saw "that there would have to be an agreement sometime," and forged what has since been hailed as California's most alluring asset...
Despite the universal acceptance of the Master Plan, Kerr still feels that three crucial problems face the huge program of development which the University must undertake in the next ten years...
Most important, Kerr says, is the difficult problem of providing a more personal and intimate environment for what will appear as "an even less significant" undergraduate. Kerr hopes, for example, that the new campus planned at Santa Cruz, to be divided into small House-like colleges of 600-800 students apiece, will help solve this problem...